It looks like they will get their wish. Domestic business activities, from industrial output to investment, appear to have held steady at the beginning of 2017 from late last year, according to a poll of economists by The Wall Street Journal.

But China’s recent economic recovery does come with a toll: increased reliance on debt. Chinese companies’ rapid accumulation of debt means they now need more assets than before to have better returns. Mizuho Securities estimated that total debt in China’s non-financial companies has amounted to 145% of the size of its economy.

The economy has also been given a boost by China’s soaring home prices, which shot up more than 30% last year in major cities, mainly driven by speculative demand that could come to a halt anytime.

“It’s important to keep in mind that the current rebound is a still cyclical one instead of a structural turnaround,” economists of Macquarie Capital Ltd. said.

Over the next two weeks the economic picture will come into focus as China releases a series of key economic reports. The Journal survey of 14 economists found these positive signs:

The year-over-year increase of value-added industrial production probably edged up to 6.1% over the first two months, from 6.0% in December.

Fixed-asset investment outside rural households likely climbed 8.3% for the January-February period, up from an 8.1% hike last year.

But the economists polled also expect some findings that will be less rosy.

Inflation pressure keeps building up. The consumer-price index, a main gauge of inflation, likely rose 1.6% from a year earlier. That would be much lower than an increase of 2.5% in January, but economists expected consumer inflation to rebound soon partly due to stronger industrial prices. The producer-price index, which tracks prices paid at the factory gate, probably surged 7.5% year over year in February, extending a 6.9% gain in January.

China’s trade surplus is expected to have narrowed sharply to $26.55 billion in February, from $51.35 billion in January. A smaller trade surplus may have contributed to a slightly larger monthly drop in China’s foreign-exchange reserves.

The nation’s stockpile of reserves likely is seen having fallen $28 billion last month to $2.97 trillion after dropping $12 billion in January, the same survey showed. A February drop would be the eighth-straight month, though declines this year have been less than in late 2016.

The reports will give the clearest look at China’s economy since the start of 2017. Several key monthly economic reports weren’t released in January to reduce distortions from the shifting timing of the long Lunar New Year holiday.